Time to scrub the slate clean: Today marks the start of the year when you’ll finally amount to something, thereby proving that your implacable father was wrong about you all along. And since you’ve got a lot to accomplish, you might as well get a jump on what to expect…
When an auteur as gifted as Steven Soderbergh takes on the story of an equally gifted performance artist, some kind of magic is almost inevitable, and that’s surely the case with the director’s new film portrait of the late Spalding Gray, whose mysterious suicide in 2004 still reverberates with his…
“Kids are king of the hill this week,” says Keystone Resort spokesman Ryan Whaley, the biggest kid on the mountain. “Wait until you see the Kidtopia snow fort this year — it’s humongous!” Kidtopia Family Week activities run December 27 through January 2 at Keystone and include a New Year’s…
For any parents who’ve ever foisted music lessons upon their unwilling offspring, the word “recital” will probably conjure up images involving stiffly combed hair, flubbed notes and the abject terror of kids getting their first taste of stage fright. But although it involves young musicians, tonight’s Tracing the Romantic Muse…
Five events, one venue: That’s the plan for the Mercury Cafe’s New Year’s Eve Celebration. And with numbers like that, the evening is sure to have something for everyone. The celebration starts at 5:30 p.m. with dinner, classical music and jazz provided by Local Color, Ron Tomasic and Nexus, then…
Quick, before grunge nostalgia sets in, party like it’s 1989 when Diamond Cabaret and After Dark host Lollipop, featuring performances by Young MC and Tiffany. Set those leg warmers and acid-wash jeans free to find their groove with the posse of national and local DJs spinning at both clubs, and…
One tattoo artist, 900 tattoos and 24 hours to break a world record. Local tattoo artist Kaos will set up shop tonight at the Hyatt Regency DTC, 7800 East Tufts Avenue, for a marathon inking session – an attempt to break the world record of 801 tattoos in a single…
Ring in the New Year with everyone’s favorite handicapped-molestation-victim-turned world-beater. That would be the Who’s Tommy, and the entire rock opera will be performed by Captain Quirk & Friends tonight at Miners Alley Playhouse. “I used to play in bands in college, and we’d do pieces of Tommy,” explains producer…
Time for some plein speaking: This is the last day to see the 2010 Denver Plein Air Festival Exhibition, a show of pieces produced during the largest urban plein air event in the country. The Golden Triangle Museum District came up with the concept four years ago as a way…
It’s almost an affront to the word “news” that the Rupert Murdoch-owned umbrella conglomerate that oversees media outlets like Fox News and the UK’s The Sun is generically called News Corporation, since that term generally implies facts. Facts, however, have never been the specialty of either of those organizations, as…
New Year’s Eve is definitely an adult-oriented holiday, but The Children’s Museum has found the perfect solution — move the celebration from midnight to noon and roll out the bubble wrap for all to enjoy…
Colorado is a regional art center with literally thousands of artists displaying their work in venues around the state that are as varied as coffee shops and museums. Here’s a list of ten artists who made a difference with their work last year. It’s a wide-ranging group that includes one…
What is Smash Putt? Oh lord, what is it not? To begin with, it’s a wicked art installation: a gigantic pinball machine, a Rube Goldberg-esque robotic creation on a major scale, Mad Max at the Putt Putt, with cocktail swilling included in the fun. And lucky you: Smash Putt!, a…
For as good as we have it here in the USA, we definitely miss out on some amazing media due to the prudish nature of much of our culture. Not so in the land of the Danes. The Danish Road Council is a million times cooler than any DOT in…
The week between Christmas and New Year’s is the dumbest week — at least if you’re unlucky enough to be at work (which, if you’re looking at this, you most likely are). Everyone else is on vacation, there’s not a whole lot to do and you’re just apathetically coasting into…
How does running and jumping around a weird universe and avoiding spinning fans of death sound for a quick time-wasting exercise? If it’s your idea of a good lunch break, than Insidia is right up your alley. Insidia is a Metroid-style platforming game in the simplest sense of the words,…
In November we published The Edge, our annual winter activity guide and comprehensive insider’s resource to 25 of Colorado’s top ski areas. It turns out we missed quite a few: According to the ghost hunters at Colorado Ski Country USA, there are 169 ski areas in the state, including 140…
Dana Cain is the lady with her thumb in a million pies: The local maestra of event-planning throws several well-attended collectors expos, art shows, parties, chocolate fests each year. Her latest — and biggest — project is next summer’s Denver County Fair. But Dana is also an avid art collector…
For those old enough to remember, the website was once a novelty, a nebulous idea that companies knew they had to have, but nobody was really sure how or why. These days, it’s kind of the same thing with smartphone apps, speculates Amy Burkhardt, a first-time businesswoman who recently co-founded…
Many of my favorite films of the year are still awaiting wider release, so although this top-ten list wraps up my 2010, it can also serve as a guide to your 2011. My number-one film, in fact, sneaks into New York just three days before the year ends: The Strange…
Since we’re a heartbeat away from being sick to death of this month’s crop of Oscar-seeking masterpieces, we’ve decided to cast a quick glance forward to the ten 2011 films we’re excited to see. We’ve seen some of the below, and make no promises for the others, but, as ever,…
The gossip blogs are abuzz today about the Lindsay Lohan PR machine’s reaction to a movie in the works that’s reportedly based on her. In one corner, filmmaker Charles Castillo, who has repeatedly mentioned Lohan’s name with regard to his upcoming Dogs in Pocketbooks, but claimed today that the movie…
